Category Archives: Entrepreneurship and Small-Business Ownership

Social media gives small businesses a platform to amplify their voice and visibility among prospective customers. For many small businesses, this is a rich opportunity, as you can see in the following infographic . . . See complete inforgraphic.

It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learnmore from their failures than their successes.Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Yet, there is no doubt that the best strategy is to learn from someone else’s mistakes, so you can enjoy the millions […]

Year after year, cities across America continue to surprise us with new, innovative, and downright awesome businesses. This year we've already brought you the coolest new businesses in Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, and now we've gone nationwide, finding the hottest restaurants, boutiques, startups, and everything in between across the U.S. Read full article. Photo […]

Every year or so, I’ll informally poll veteran entrepreneurs I know. The questions I ask have evolved over time, but a few remain pretty consistent. One that I find elicits some of the more insightful comments is this question: “What is the single best piece of advice you received — or wish you’d received — when you were just […]

Mark Cuban has taken to Reddit to answer questions on everything from the NBA, to his famous confrontation with ESPN talking head Skip Bayless, to his unconventional ideas on tax policy. He also gave advice on what made him famous before he became the high profile owner of the Dallas Mavericks and his incredible success as an […]

As young entrepreneurs it’s important that we keep swinging for the fences. Super successful investors like Ron Conway say they’d rather invest in an 18 year old Mark Zuckerberg than a 31 year old seasoned entrepreneur because the young Sean Parker types truly think the sky is the limit. At Under30CEO we’re going to carry […]

Why do some startups succeed and others fail? Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein put together a Harvard Business School working paper to answer that question . . . Read more . . .

When it comes to swaying consumers, nothing beats word of mouth. That’s because, 92 percent of people trust recommendations from friends and family above all other forms of advertising when making a purchase decision, according to a new study. That number was up nearly 20 percent from 2007. Read full article.

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short – maybe short on content, but not short on pages! A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten […]